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...Deputies may not realize it yet, but they have done the President a favor by their vote on impeachment. Before the crisis, his popularity was slipping. The moment the Congress attacks began, his approval rating began to climb. "Going after Yeltsin was like waving a red flag at a bull," says a middle-aged chauffeur at the Perovsky garage. "Whatever we may have thought about the President before, he now has our 100% support. It's in the Russian character to stick up for the underdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Good Czar | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...every gourmet will be thrilled by Bourre's contention that the best food for brains is, well, brains. Liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are also rich in mind-building and protein-developing fatty acids, as are Rocky Mountain oysters (a.k.a. bull testicles) -- "for enlightened connoisseurs," the author smoothly adds. But one puzzle Bourre leaves unsolved: If eating well equates with thinking well, how come chefs and restaurant critics aren't the smartest folks around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food For Thought | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...what things looked like to me." But really, the movie's script and style were born of necessity. Rodriguez built the screenplay around the assets available to him for the 14- day shoot in Acuna, Mexico: a hotel, two bars, a school bus, a motorcycle and a pit bull. All became elements in the story -- plus a turtle found on the road. He laid on the gore to please his intended audience of Mexican videophiles and added a strong female character just to twit them. "If I thought a lot of people were going to see this," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Few Bucks, Very Big Bang | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

HANOVER, N.H.--Harvard men's hockey Coach Ronn Tomassoni paced around outside the Crimson locker room like a wounded bull, searching for some way to take out a frustration that was starkly self-evident...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Can't Handle Big Green, 4-3 | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...Liberals think it's about sexual harassment. Conservatives are sure it's about intellectual terrorism. Even Playbill splits the difference: half the front covers put a bull's-eye on the haughty college professor, the other half on his dim, dogmatic female student. Playwright David Mamet's off-Broadway zinger holds a mirror up to muddled modern life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

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